Aristotle’s Illusion (via Tim Hunkin and Lord Kilmarnock)
A while back I was reading the entertainingly gothic ghost story Ferelith by Lord Kilmarnock, and came across this passage: At last, after four years of waiting, I stumbled on the…
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Only love can break your heart. Only love can save you. Only love can damn you. Neil Young, Dante, Purgatorio, the power of love.
I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…
On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre
The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…
On Nietzschean irrationalism in bureaucratic society: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre
Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” – about two thirds of the way through. Whatever the virtues of the central arguments, there are an awful lot of thought-provoking quotes some of…
Séamus Sweeney 